Volpone is a Venetian merchant whose name means "cunning fox" in Italian. He pretends to be on his deathbed in order to shred the scumbags who are coming to his legacy. Volpone's sly servant spreads the rumor that only the bed of a young beauty can cure his exhausted master. Greedy but naive, Corvino agrees to "loan" his young wife, with the assurance that in return he will become the sole heir to the estate...
Celebrating its 80th anniversary, the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater looks into the history of the theater to look at the legendary theater productions with a new perspective. One such - in 1941. the classic comedy "Volpone" by Shakespeare's contemporary Ben Jonson interpreted by the young director Juoz Miltinis. Volpone is Jonson's most famous play, scathingly mocking human vices such as greed, selfishness, and slavery to passion. The popularity of the play is determined by the comic situations and characters, in which the masks of the Italian improvisational comedy, commedia dell'arte, are clearly recognizable. It is interesting that at that time Juozas Miltinis himself played in the performance.
The play was resurrected in the Juoz Miltinis Drama Theater by director Aidas Giniotis - the greatest connoisseur of commedia dell'arte in Lithuania and a master of comedic genres. Perhaps it turns out that human vices and weaknesses remain the same despite technological and other advances?
